GuardNILState of the App

What we are launching with

The parent dashboard.

This is the screen you land on after you sign in. It shows four things. We kept it to four on purpose, because a screen that shows twenty things is a screen nobody reads.

What this part does

It answers the two questions a family actually has. When is the next payment, and how much is in there. Everything else on the page is one step away from those two.

Only you see it. Your child has no account, so there is no version of this screen for them to open.

The four things you see

  • What
    Payment countdown
    What it tells you
    A live count down to the next scheduled payment date.
    Where the number comes from
    The pay-every setting in your family agreement.
  • What
    E-wallet balance
    What it tells you
    How much your child has built up. You control it, they do not.
    Where the number comes from
    The ledger lines added up. There is no stored total that could drift away from them.
  • What
    Pillar progress
    What it tells you
    Each of the five pillars in the agreement, showing what is done and what is left.
    Where the number comes from
    One completion record per part, per period.
  • What
    Encouragement
    What it tells you
    A short note for your own child, written by GuardNIL and waiting for you to send it.
    Where the number comes from
    Written fresh each day there is something real to write about. You are the sender.

When a payment is waiting for you, an approval card takes the top spot, and the encouragement card moves down the page. That is the only way the layout changes.

Your child's card

If you have more than one child on the account, each one gets a small card. That card shows exactly three things.

  • Their first name.
  • Whether the agreement is active, paused, or still waiting to be set up.
  • Their wallet balance.

Tapping the card opens a page for that child. Three things on a card is the whole of it, and we count them out here because the next section is about a time we described this screen wrongly.

A correction about team and school

We checked this against the code and our own notes were wrong

An earlier version of our product write-up said the dashboard shows your child's team name and school. We opened the code to check. It does not.

The real signed-in dashboard shows a first name, a status, and a balance. It never renders a school name anywhere. The one place team and school appear together is our public demo, which runs on made-up families and is not a real account.

We are correcting our own document rather than quietly leaving a claim that a reviewer would have found by clicking around for ten minutes.

But we do collect a school name, and that is a separate problem

Not showing something is not the same as not having it. When you add a child during setup, the form asks for their school or team, and we save it.

We publicly say we do not collect a school name for children under 13. When we checked, the form does not actually turn that field off for a younger child. That is a real gap between what we say and what the code does, it is written down on our compliance page, and we would rather you read it here than find it yourself.

What data this part touches

The dashboard holds no data of its own. It reads what the other parts wrote. Every read is checked against who is asking, so it can only ever show you your own family.

  • Your child's first name and their wallet balance.
  • The family agreement and what is done in it.
  • The next scheduled payment date.
  • Your recent notes.

Tracking on this screen

We run two separate tools that count visits, and neither one records anything here. They are worth taking one at a time, because mixing them up is how our own earlier description went wrong.

  • Our own visit tracker is not loaded here at all. It is only placed on public pages, and the dashboard is not one. The code for it never reaches this screen.
  • Our general analytics tool is switched on once for the whole site, and this screen is on its exclusion list. The dashboard, setup, the agreement builder, the locked-parent screen, and the staff area are all named in that list, so recording is off there for everyone.
  • Your own switch turns it off everywhere. The do-not-share setting in your privacy settings stops recording across the whole site, on top of the exclusion list.

That is two independent reasons nothing is recorded on this screen, which is what we want for a page whose web address can carry a child's identifiers. The full accounting of both tools is on the privacy page.

If something goes wrong

You are signed out

You are sent to the sign-in page. The dashboard cannot load without a valid session.

You have not finished setup

You are sent back to finish it. The dashboard would show empty boxes otherwise.

Our children's privacy notice changed

You are sent to read the new one before you can continue. This is not a banner you can dismiss.

A number looks wrong

The balance is always the ledger lines added up, never a stored total that could drift. If a number looks wrong, the lines behind it can be listed one by one, and none of them can have been edited.